Feature toggles, as the practice has been for many years, has the user being conscious of what they are doing. The feature may prove to be a problem and you specifically don’t want to expose it to the whole user population. I honestly find your attitude extremely disconcerting. What you think is right, or how you think something should work is fine but shoving things in as you have, affecting core behavior and just expecting users to make any of the adjustments necessary is not very wise. Please take a step back and think about what you’re doing.
A conscious change to a POM by a user or a command line switch for a possible feature/fix in 4.x while the user can run 3.x is a great way to figure out whether said feature/fix is viable or not. No, someone new to Maven downloading 3.x should not get every new feature or behaviorally changing bug fix. It’s clear you’ve not had to support any large population of users. You just can’t do that. You change one thing you think is more “correct” and 500 people spend a few hours wondering why a build is broken. No one is going to read release notes, most are not on the mailing list. You’ll just hose them, and an attitude of “they were just doing things wrong” really isn’t acceptable. > On Jul 2, 2016, at 7:31 PM, Christian Schulte <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 07/02/16 um 23:18 schrieb Karl Heinz Marbaise: >> Hi, >> >> On 7/2/16 2:06 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: >> .... >>> So we need to figure out a way to deliver the new behavior while >> preserving >>> the old for a time being. Maybe a branch, >> >> >>> but I think the best way to do it is to have both behaviors exist in the >>> same codebase and turn on what we considered corrected behavior >>> with feature toggles. > > Someone who never has used Maven before and who downloads the current > release should just use the 'mvn' command and get the behaviour with all > "features" activated and should not have to care about any "feature". If > I upgrade to a recent Maven version I am doing that to get the latest > "features". That's like upgrading from OS 3.1 to OS 10 and having to > check 10000 checkboxes in the installer to activate all "features" > introduced after OS 3.1. If not activating any feature the OS 10 > installer installs OS 3.1. Come one. > > Regards, > -- > Christian > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Takari and Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl http://twitter.com/takari_io --------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
